Thurgood Marshall Sworn-In as Solicitor General

This photograph is of federal judge Thurgood Marshall's swearing-in as the first African-American Solicitor General by Hugo L. Black, associate justice of the Supreme Court. The event took place in the Cabinet Room of the White House on August 24, 1965. Marshall would go on to become a Supreme Court Justice in 1967. Photographed alongside Marshall and Black are President Lyndon B. Johnson and Marshall's family: wife Cecilia Marshall and sons Thurgood Marshall, Jr. and John W. Marshall.